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Late Summer Color: Theodore Robinson (1852-1896 US)

Monday, August 24, 2026 | Karl Cole

This is certainly one of the most French-Impression-like Theodore Robinson paintings that I can show you. He certainly mastered Monet’s “broken color” technique. No wonder he’s ...

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Gem of the Month: Lino Tagliapietra (born 1934 Italy)

Monday, August 10, 2026 | Karl Cole

August's Gem of the Month is also this artist's birthday! I have been to the so-called Island of Glass, Murano, off the coast of Venice. I have rarely been so wowed by an art process as I was when I s ...

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August is for artist Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949 US)

Monday, August 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

I would use any excuse to show you the paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack, so I’ll go by his name. If you will pardon my pun, his paintings are very august. I have never been able to decide if I ...

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Heat Equals Warm Colors: Art by Karel Appel (1921-2006 Netherlands)

Monday, July 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

What with the warm weather we experienced recently, the steaminess put me in mind of how works of art can reflect warmth or coolness, or in terms of the latest weather: Heat. Just look at this fiery l ...

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A Weekly Beauty Attack

Monday, May 11, 2026 | Karl Cole

Beauty Attack Monday 11th of May is also the birthday of major Op Art artist Yaacov Agam (France, born 1928 Palestine [present day Israel]). Agam along with Julio le Parc (born 1928 Argentina) and Jes ...

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Spring Impression by a Truly Lyrical Artist

Monday, April 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

Every so often I try to explore artists whose names have never been – as the saying goes – a “household word.” That is unfortunate, because many relatively lesser well known ar ...

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Artist Birthday: Jules Olitski

Friday, March 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Jules Olitski was a Ukrainian-born American artist who was instrumental in developing the Color Field painting style. Color Field, which involved staining canvas rather than using brushes, was the ant ...

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Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...

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Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

Impressionism, a painting movement that arose from the earlier Realism movement, was one of the first revolutions in the history of development of painting, wherein artists did not rely solely on comm ...

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Artist's Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like the American modernist movement Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism was dominated by male artists with strong personalities. But there were many significant women Expressionists in Germa ...

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Artist Birthday: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001 US, born Spain)

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | Karl Cole

Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...

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Beauty Attack = Gorgeous Gauguin

Monday, January 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

If you are as taken with the color of the most prominently written about Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) paintings, then you will simply drool over this early still life. The background colors are particular ...

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Artist Birthday: Pierre Bonnard

Friday, October 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Surely one of the greatest colorists in French painting right up there with Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pierre Bonnard’s intimate, highly personal vision of his world is expressed with gestur ...

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Artist Birthday: Moe Brooker

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Moe Brooker was one of several African American artists who championed a spiritual type of abstraction as an important contribution to contemporary African American and American art. ...

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Artist Birthday: Suzanne Valadon

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

Suzanne Valadon was a popular model for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. She was inspired by their work to teach herself drawing an painting and established herself as a successful pa ...

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Artist Birthday: Alvin Loving, Jr

Friday, September 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

Alvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...

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Late Summer Color: Theodore Robinson (1852-1896 US)

Gem of the Month: Lino Tagliapietra (born 1934 Italy)

August is for artist Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949 US)

Heat Equals Warm Colors: Art by Karel Appel (1921-2006 Netherlands)

A Weekly Beauty Attack

Spring Impression by a Truly Lyrical Artist

Artist Birthday: Jules Olitski

Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor

Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)

Artist's Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)

Artist Birthday: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001 US, born Spain)

Beauty Attack = Gorgeous Gauguin

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Artist Birthday: Suzanne Valadon

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